Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] it [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | Eventually , one of them attacked it with a large branch , striking it a damaging blow . |
2 | It was later that evening that he took a white muslin dress out of the bag with which he had returned from Paris and asked me to wear it as a nightdress . |
3 | The assistant changed the battery and told me to monitor it for a week for any problems . |
4 | Not every day , nor as often as I would wish , but I took my middle daughter to see it yesterday and we hugged it together , and two days before that I hugged it with a friend . |
5 | For that , on Locke 's understanding of how visual sensations are related to impressions on the retina , is the same in the two cases of my seeing the figure as a drawing of a duck and my seeing it as a drawing of a rabbit . |
6 | I made it for a dancer ( Nijinsky ) who can soar like a spirit , but who has the strength to dance with the Wilis [ as in Giselle ] and live to dance again . ’ |
7 | It was only a few square feet in size and I made it into a carpet of flowers . |
8 | And then in the , where the bath used to be , in this little bathroom I had the cooker and the washer that 's it , I made it into a little kitchen so |
9 | I made it from a pattern |
10 | ‘ I regret it in a way , ’ he says thoughtfully . |
11 | so he goes , no he goes I , I mean it as a slovenly woman , like you 're |
12 | I commandeered it without a second thought . ’ |
13 | And I fought it for a long time and I wanted to get kick-started back to where I was before , because I felt under a cloud . |
14 | It really should n't work , but the wretched book is so irresistible that I devoured it in a day , fighting off friends and strangers who fell on it like vultures on a carcass the moment it was cast aside with a happy sigh . ’ |
15 | That hat has been to Buckingham Palace twice because I lent it to a friend who was invited to a later garden party . |
16 | I shared it with a coloured girl who I got on with and we had a good laugh . |
17 | ‘ Then I sold it for a Telecaster , which I hated , because the Tele did n't have any knobs ; it was a real simple guitar and I did n't like it , so I bought a Les Paul and I loved it . |
18 | I sold it for a reasonable price . |
19 | ‘ I sold it to a tinker . |
20 | I make , cos I make it in a microwave |
21 | Then I rode it in a in an old Burberry and I do n't how I started it , I think it was kick start . |
22 | " I could n't possibly afford the flat if I were renting it now , but I got it on a long lease just after the war , when rents were much less than they are today , " she said . |
23 | I got it with a , because Hughie sold the |
24 | ‘ I did n't know at the time it had been in the Quakers boardroom but it was a good , handmade , solid oak table and I got it for a reasonable price , ’ he said . |
25 | I got it from a guy called Reuben , he was living in Wales and my sister Louise bought me a Joe Johnson with Rip trucks from him for £60 . |
26 | ‘ I got it from a novel I read at school , ’ she said , looking down and shuffling her feet . |
27 | look I said I do n't mind vinyl , I do n't mind good vinyl the only good , the only one that , it was good for the toilet , but I got it in a pack cos we 've got such a small single toilet |
28 | I got it in a pack outside Fads |
29 | I think I got it in a shop on the where did I get it ? |
30 | ‘ But when I tried it as a young kid I could n't even hit the pitch for several years . |